By Mary Deardeuff
maryd@newsroom.byu.edu
Introducing the latest accessory-turned-cosmetic trend: visors.
They are appearing everywhere lately -- upside down, backwards, sideways -- but not exactly for their traditional purpose.
Amy Howell, 19, a sophomore from Alpine majoring in elementary education, wears a visor for her job at Sugar and Spice in the Cougareat.
'Managers will yell at me if I don't wear it,' Howell said.
She said some employees of the Cougareat have hats and others have visors.
'It depends on where you work. They just give you a hat or a visor,' she said. She is indifferent to either one, but said she isn't a hat person.
'I wouldn't wear it around as a style,' she said.
But a style is exactly what visors are becoming.
Aaron Moon, a senior from Dallas majoring in Latin American studies, wore his visor practically everywhere until he lost it.
'I just liked the way it looked; the style and stuff,' Moon said. He had it since summer started, but said he hadn't seen too many of them.
'It could become more popular,' he said.
Moon got his visor at Millers Outpost in the Provo Towne Centre, and he said there are a lot of visors at many different stores.
Cynthia Hansen, an assistant manager at Millers Outpost, said they sell a lot of visors, and all of them to males.
'At the beginning of the summer we had a flood of boys come in,' she said.
The most popular visors are the New York brand, and white is the favorite color.
'Those are the first ones to go,' she said.
Quicksilver is also a demanded brand for visors, and the colors bright orange and navy have been seen around as well.
Most of the men who wear visors all over the place are in college, Hansen said. The other group sporting the trend is younger boys around 12 or 13 years old.
However, Neal Cordon, a manager at the Cougareat, can only see one purpose for a visor.
'It keeps the sun out of your eyes,' he said.